{"id":216103,"date":"2023-03-11T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=276216"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:51:06","slug":"sony-buy-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/sony-buy-take-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts weigh in: Could Sony&#8217;s purchase of Take-Two change the gaming landscape?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the last few hours, there is an information that has not stopped circulating in social networks: <strong>Sony could acquire Take-Two<\/strong>, the publisher behind the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/s\/gta\"> <strong>Grand Theft Auto<\/strong><\/a> or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/s\/nba-2k\">NBA 2K<\/a><\/strong> saga. And yes, we put the condicinal, that hateful &#8220;could&#8221;, because it is nothing more than a rumor that takes advantage of the wave of layoffs that Take-Two is making in some areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The information comes from the account <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LumberjackRy\">LumberjackRy<\/a><\/strong>, a former worker in the video game industry. So far so normal, some may think, but the reality is that as journalist <strong>Jason Schreier<\/strong>, one of the most authoritative voices in the press and who does have a stamp and credit, points out, <strong>this user misses more than he gets right<\/strong>, not to mention that, right now, it is impossible for Sony to acquire Take-Two. And we explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amusing how widely the &quot;Sony is buying Take-Two&quot; rumor has spread, given that it originated from a single Twitter account. Some other tweets from the same account over the last year&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y7R19UJUNB\">pic.twitter.com\/Y7R19UJUNB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonschreier\/status\/1633191302614470656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Take-Two is currently worth approximately $20 billion<\/strong>. This amount is really high, as it is almost a third of <strong>what Microsoft paid for all of Activision Blizzard<\/strong>. In fact, if we look at acquisitions made by Sony in recent times, last year&#8217;s purchase of Bungie amounted to <strong>$3.6 billion<\/strong>, a far cry from the $20 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To all this we must add another very important detail. Sony recently announced that it<strong> has $5 billion to invest.<\/strong> The amount is high, of course, but it is a quarter of what Take-Two is worth, and this without forgetting <strong>that those $5 billion are for all of Sony, not just the PlayStation video game division.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the future you never know, but at this time, i.e. March 11 at 11:33 a.m., <strong>it is impossible for Sony to acquire Take-Two<\/strong>. Moreover, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/i-would-like-to-see-gta-6\">the forecasts with GTA 6 are higher than ever<\/a><\/strong>, so there is no compelling reason to see this acquisition viable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is already in advance: right now, no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9091,"featured_media":216104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-216103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321757,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216103\/revisions\/321757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216103"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=216103"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=216103"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=216103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}